Ironies of the Crash
By Carnifax
House M.D.
House/Wilson
Rated T
General/Drama
House's musings after the bus ordeal ends. Spoilers for "House's Head."
(Written before "Wilson's Heart" aired.)
The whole bus crash nightmare was full of morbid irony, House realized years after it ended.
Firstly, it was ironic that Wilson would even consider dating a woman exactly like House, and it was even more ironic that House, who had ended all of the oncologist's previous relationships, wasn't at all culpable for their breakup.
It was ironic that, after the crash, the first file Thirteen had read aloud was the file House had spent all that time looking for, and he dismissed it without consideration.
It was ironic that the first clearly-hallucinated person in his head was Amber herself, and he didn't think about why.
It was ironic that House, who hated Amber, was assigned as her attending because he was the only one who had a chance of figuring out what was wrong.
It was ironic that Wilson, not House, was the first to realize that the laceration in Amber's leg was the exact equivalent to House's infarction in both location and severity, and that if she survived the ordeal, she would be using a cane for the rest of her life. It was also ironic, at least to Wilson, that Amber would probably be given Vicodin to manage the steady pain in her right thigh.
It was ironic that Amber admitted to having an affair with House, when the diagnostician couldn't remember it at all.
It was ironic that House couldn't even prove his innocence to his best friend, who said he regretted ever associating with the 'lying bastard.'
It was ironic when Wilson came back to House minutes after yelling at him, and said—without apologizing—that House should risk his life to save Amber. It was even more ironic when House said he'd do whatever it took.
It was ironic that, before the surgery, House told Wilson to pick Amber if something went wrong and he could only save one of them.
It was ironic that Wilson agreed to pick Amber, but when the surgeries really did go wrong, he picked House and felt no guilt for it.
When Amber's heart restarted on its own and the surgeries were successful, it was ironic that Wilson chose to stay with House while Amber woke up to an elderly nurse.
It was ironic that House ended up proving himself innocent by extracting a confession from his own employee, who had actually been the one having an affair with Amber.
It was ironic that Wilson forgave Amber for cheating on him with House, but when he saw that she had only been trying to sabotage the diagnostician, he said he couldn't live with her. That night, Wilson moved in with House and never left.
It was ironic that, weeks later, when Amber appeared at the hospital with a cane and a limp, she could only apologize to House because Wilson locked the door to his office.
It was ironic that, on the anniversary of the bus crash, House's motorcycle slid on wet pavement, leading to a nasty but easily-healed wrist fracture. It was ironic that Wilson didn't know how small the injury was, and so after Cuddy called with news of the accident, he broke every speed limit getting to PPTH.
But possibly the most ironic of all, every bit of Wilson's anxiety vanished when the oncologist saw his best friend sitting in the ER, yelling at Cameron for giving him the wrong color cast—and that was the moment Wilson finally realized he was in love with the misanthropic, blue-eyed man.
I just felt the need to come up with a prediction-ish fic before "Wilson's Heart" aired, especially one that involved CTB with a cane… Review—and leave your own predictions.